Episode 22: A Taste of Armageddon

Wars being fought by computer really sounded like a great idea until this episode came along and ruined it. Instead of being shot or gassed or nuked, just walk into a spinning closet and you’re painlessly disintegrated! Such a civilized concept could have lasted forever if Kirk hadn’t shown up and started blasting everything is sight.

This episode is actually a pretty smart sci-fi concept, exploring the idea of warfare and its related deaths becoming so technical they become a mundane part of everyday life, neither feared nor avoided. The show also has one of the coolest classic Trek sets, with a computerized scanning station complete with spinning radar viewer. Not too shabby considering the less-than-stellar budgets of the ’60s.

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Thanks for the review! I am going through Classic Trek episode by episode with my kids, and we just watched “A Taste of Armageddon” on Blu-Ray and we really enjoyed it. We agreed that this was a pretty good episode – with an interesting concept – and classic Kirk baddassery.

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